The university takes on and promotes the international character of its training programmes, given its membership in the European Higher Education Area. It developes international networks, activating study programmes in collaboration with universities in other countries that enable curricula enrichment, exchange of students, and use of languages. All this in order to also foster relations with national and international public and private institutions, presenting Iuav students and graduates to an international level of job orientation.

To pursue these principles, Università Iuav di Venezia constantly develops protocols of understanding and implementation conventions of training and cooperation with universities and institutions in Europe and in the rest of the world, allowing exchanges of teachers and students.
In fact, the university holds about:
- 150 conventions with European institutions
- 60 conventions with non-European institutions

These are the reasons for Iuav student satisfaction: specialised available information and the wide choice of partner universities in which to experience mobility. Each academic year presents about 250 inbound and outbound exchange situations. In addition, there are also many opportunities for short mobility (international workshops) with the participation of foreign students and professionals.

Finally, internationalisation and mobility policies are always at the forefront of the institutional agenda of Università Iuav di Venezia, since it participates in the Erasmus Plus programme.